Combined copy-holder and book-rest



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- G. WEINSGHENK.

COMBINED COPY HOLDER AND BOOK REST. No. 289,195. Patented Nov. 27, 1883.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR? j I I v ATTORNEYS.

UNrTEn STATES PATENT @EETEE.

GUSTAVE \VEINSCHENK, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED COPY-HOLDER AND BOOK-REST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lett srs Patent No. 289,195, dated November 27, 1833.

Application filed May 16, 1853.

(No model.)

5 and Improved Combined Gopy- Holder and Book-Rest, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and conveniently-operative device for holding a compositors copy to a typecase when setting up the type, the device being alike useful for attachment to a desk, chair, or other support while recopying manuscripts, or books held thereby, and for holding books or papers open for more convenient perusal; and to this end the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of parts as-hereinafter fully described, and pointedout in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all. the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my improved holder applied to a printers type-case and with the copy held thereon. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the liner-bar, and Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the clamp socket of the holder.

Referring to the drawings, a represents a staff provided with a fixed cross bar or rest, a, which is preferably edge-grooved, for better support of the book or copy 0 to be held. The staff has its lower end rounded and fitted loosely in the socket b of the foot I), so as to turn axially therein, for the purpose of turning the staff and attached copy or book in right angular plane relatively to the length of the staff. The foot b is slotted to form forkarms If, for embracing the side or any partition of a type-case, t, as in Fig. l, or other support, and fastened thereto by a clamp-screw, o or equivalent device, as a wedge or cam. An indicating-bar-or liner, (Z, formed, preferably, of a strip of wood, is, slotted centrally lengthwise at d, to leave the elastic tongues or plates d of unequal length, extending from any suitably-forn1ed handle, d, which handle I provide only for greater convenience in mov- 5o ing the bar up or down over the copy or book.

The handle, however, is not essential, as the tongue of the liner serves as a handle; but I prefer the form of liner shown, as it can be more readily and accurately moved. The forkarms 2) preferably slant backward and downward from the plane of the face of staff a that is to say, the fork-arms b are at an angle to the socket portion of the foot for more conveniently inclining the held copy or book to best suit the vision of the user.

On the staff a are placed over each other a series of independently-removable fiat tubes,

6. One or more of these tubes is to be placed upon the staff, as the thickness of the copy or book shall require, in order to render the combined thickness of the staff and copy equal to the width of the slot in the liner, and thereby maintain the even elastic grip of the liner tongues or plates (1 on the book or copy by a proper filling of the slot d of the liner'bar.

The tubes 6 are of a length nearly equal to the part of the staff a above the cross-bar a.

In use the staff a is secured to a type-case, desk, drawer, chair, or other support by the c1amp-foot b, and the copy is placed upon the rest a, against the staff a or its requisite fillingtubes 6, whereupon the liner-bar is applied over the face of the copy and the back of the staff or tubes 6, and preferably with the longer plate d to the front, the copy or book to be set up in type or reproduced in manuscript, or otherwise, being held in the liner-slot df by the elasticity of the tongues (1, and with sufficient pressure thereby to be firmly held to any set position, whilepermittingit tobereadily moved by a slight touch, to conceal or disclose consecutive lines of the clasped copy or book for preventing the skipping of lines, and insuring the correct setting up or duplication of the matter in hand.

Thus constructed, my improved holder may readily be adjusted most advantageously to light up the book or copy held by it, and when employed on type cases it may be shifted quickly to different places on the same case or to different cases, as desired, and does not prevent free access to the contiguous type cells or boxes, which is a great convenience where frequent use of capitals is necessary. Choice books or manuscripts may also be held without danger of soiling, which now often prompts their reproduction in manuscript copy for use of the compositor, thus effecting a considera ble saving of time and labor, and any number of sheets may be kept together and held firmly, irrespective of their size, and the liner-bar operated thereover, as above described, and as book-rests the holders will be useful in supporting one or more books for perusal or reference and from any convenient support, as a desk, chair-back, or table.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A copy-holder and book-rest consisting of the staff a, provided with a rest, a, the clamp socketfoot I), the tongued liner (1, and removable filling-tubes c, all combined and arranged substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The liner (Z, made with a slot, d, and elastic tongues d of unequal length, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The combination, with the staff a, provided with the rest a, of the slotted liner-bar d, provided with the handle cl and the tongues (1 of unequal length, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. The combination, with the shaft (1 and the liner-bar d d d, of the removable filling tubes 6, substantially as herein shown and described.

GUSTAVE XVEINSCHENK.

Witnesses:

ALEXANDER lVIILLAN, FRED M. PAINE. 

